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Data set: Taurus Heat Pumps - Inverter Pro (00.07.001)

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Full name Taurus Heat Pumps - Inverter Pro

Location FI

Reference year 2023

Valid until 2028

Reference flow(s) Taurus Heat Pumps - Inverter Pro - 1.0 * 1.0 Stück (Number of pieces)

Type EPD

Parameterized? no

LCIA results included? yes

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Use advice for data set Studied system covers the following steps of life cycle according to EN 15804: A1 Raw material supply, A2 Transport, A3 Manufacturing, A4 Transportation of the product to construction site, A5 Installation to building, C1 Deconstruction, C2 Transportation of end-of-life C3 Waste processing and C4 Disposal. In addition, the benefits and loads beyond the system boundary of stage D consist of product reuse, recovery and recycling. System boundary describing the system boundary and the input and output flows is shown below: The end of waste point of the recycled steel raw material was assumed to be after scrap steel collection, sorting and preparation. Processing of scrap steel in steel production was considered to be part of next life cycle and included to the system boundaries of the studied product. End of waste point of the studied product is the step when material is used as fuel in an incineration plant or recycled material is handled in the collection and sorting plant. EOW point of the waste flows in A3- module is the step when materials are collected and handled in the sorting plant. EOW point of the packaging materials collected for recycling in A5 module is the point when materials are collected and handled in the sorting plant. Production stage (A3) on the Gebwell´s production sites cover following manufacturing processes; raw material supply, steel cutting, welding and soldering components, assembly, software programming and packaging. After that, products will be transported to the client. The production processes of products are presented in following figure.

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General comment PROCEDURED FOR COLLECTION PROCESS SPECIFIC DATA Production specific data was collected directly from manufacturer’s production plant. The data represents the production of the studied product at the plant from the materials transported to the facility and represents 1 year average. The data represents year 2021, which was the latest year with full year data. All gathered data was used without excluding categories in advance following the system boundaries set in earlier chapters. CRITERIA FOR CHOOSING THE GENERIC DATA Generic data that was used for upstream and downstream processes represents complementary data from Ecoinvent 3.6 database. The datasets were chosen to represent the studied system as closely as possible. When available supplier specific information was used for instance in form of EN 15804 EPDs or emissions profile of local energy supplier. When supplier specific information was not available the information sources were chosen based on their technical and geographical representativeness. Only when country specific or European data has not been available has global level data been used (concerns mainly data from ecoinvent 3.6) As up-to-date data as possible was chosen and no more than five-year-old for producer specific data and ten years for generic data was used. Allocation rules used are made according to the ISO14044:2006. Allocation is avoided when possible and when necessary, allocation is made based on physical shares and also avoiding double calculations. Allocation is required if the production process produces more than one product and the flows of materials, energy and waste cannot be separately measured for the studied product. Allocation used in generic data sources follow the requirements of the EN 15804 -standard. It should be noticed that the allocation method ‘allocation, cut-off by classification’ has been used for Ecoinvent 3.6 data, which complies with EN 15804. Avoiding allocation could not be avoided for following inputs as the information was only measured on factory process level. • Electricity consumption and heat production: only measured on factory level • Energy-, wood- metal, rubber-, cable-, and plastic waste: only measured on factory level • Water use: only measured on factory level • Welding gases: only measured on factory level The inputs were allocated to studied product based on production volume (mass in kilograms). According to EN 15804, flows leaving the system at the end-of-waste boundary of the product stage (A1-A3) are allocated as coproducts. In this study, the recyclable metal scrap from cutting process is considered as a co-product. Scrap metal collected from the steel cutting process is sent for recycling, and environmental impacts from the product manufacturing and waste processing in A1-A3 modules are allocated for this co-product based on mass (kg). This study follows the cut-off criteria stated in RTS PCR and EN 15804 -standard. This study does not exclude anu modules or processes which represent more than 1 % of the emissions of studied life cycle stage. The study does not exclude any hazardous materials or substances. Excluded processes and the criteria for exclusion are given in following table. Machines and facilities (capital goods) required for and during production are excluded, as is transportation of employees.

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Completeness of product model No statement

Reviews Independent external review by Heini Koutonen, Nordic Offset Oy

License and access conditions Copyright yes License type Free of charge for all users and uses Access information None

Owner of data set Gebwell Ltd

Technical purpose This environmental declaration covers the environmental impacts of Taurus EVI and Taurus Inverter Pro heat pumps manufactured by Gebwell Ltd. in Leppävirta, Finland. The EPD contains three different products. Taurus Inverter Pro heat pump Taurus Inverter Pro is a highly efficient inverter heat pump intended for large properties. The inverter-controlled Taurus Inverter Pro heat pump adapts to the heating requirements of the building and optimises heating output. As a result, the cost efficiency of heating is improved and living comfort increased. Taurus Inverter Pro heat pump is rated 40 to 100 kW with continuous adjustment and modulation by 1%. The electronic expansion valve of the heat pump adapts to power changes of the inverter compressor, optimising the efficiency of the heat pump. The heat pump has a piston compressor, which is typically serviced instead of replacement. Gebwell IoT heat pumps are characterised by system development based on the use of data from already installed IoT systems stored in the cloud service, and by a smart and learning controller. Among other things, IoT features include adjustments based on weather forecasts, and learning the thermal capacity and the heating/cooling behaviour of a certain property. In the future, IoT will enable proactive maintenance and adjustments according to weather forecasts, for example. Thanks to IoT, the controller software of an IoT heat pump can be updated remotely and the system monitored and controlled online using the browser based Gebwell Smart Control Hub.

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Other versions 00.05.001 00.05.000 00.04.000 00.03.000

Compliance systems EN 15804+A2 (Overall compliance: Fully compliant) ISO 14025 (Overall compliance: Fully compliant) ISO 21930 (Overall compliance: Fully compliant)

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